Top 1200 Simple Living Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple.

The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.

My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.

I think the simple message of that song is what attracted me to 'Every Day.' It's one of those simple yet profound lyrics.

In some cases, I allow the edge of the set, the edge of my own artificial, artistic imposition, to show up because I don't want to hide from that. I want to acknowledge that there is a living human and a living eye and a living mind and a living heart responding to what's going on out there.

What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't

Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

Now Hillary Clinton and I are 'companeros de alma.' And we share this basic belief: it's simple. Do all the good you can and serve one another. Pretty simple.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

I am a simple person; I come from a very simple home. We believe in enjoying life and what we have.

The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame Simplicity is freedom, buoyancy, transparency. As simple as the air, as free as the air The simple person does not take himself too seriously or too tragicallyHe has nothing to prove, since he has no appearances to keep up, and nothing to seek, since everything is before him. What is more simple than simplicity? What is lighter? It is the virtue of wise men and the wisdom of saints.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.'

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

Love is so simple. [Fr., C'est tellement simple, l'amour.]

I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond everything, living beyond mortality, living beyond all the immortal confines, living beyond the planet as we know it. It's mind-blowingly no limits, and I think this is going to be something else.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

Go ahead and do what you really love to do! Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a moment doing something for a living you don't like to do? What kind of a living is that? That is not a living, that is a dying!

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern.

I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It's not so simple to be simple.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

I am a simple girl from a simple background, and I think fans have appreciated my authenticity. What you see is definitely what you get with me.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.

I'm a simple man with very simple tastes and low standards.

No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending to be something you aren't because you're trying to please a bunch of judgmental hypocrites and shitheads is not the way to be happy. Living the life you want to live is. It really is that simple.

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.

There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

I did not find living alone difficult. In fact, it was such a liberating feeling because simple things like ironing my clothes, doing laundry, making my bed made me feel independent and gave me the sense of accomplishment that I can do it myself.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.

Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.

We're living at a time when attention is the new currency We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make. Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Fitbit and the SenseCam give us a simple choice: participate or fade into a lonely obscurity.

I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

Living with only the bare essentials has not only provided superficial benefits such as the pleasure of a tidy room or the simple ease of cleaning, it has also led to a more fundamental shift. It's given me a chance to think about what it really means to be happy.

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently

'Sukhi Mansacha Sadara' is a very simple, clean series and we all will experience the positive energy created by this simple subject.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

I'm a simple girl. I just like the simple things in life.

Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples.

Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

It is always there, of course, when you come back from the green world. You have been living by sunrise and sunset, by wind and rain, surrounded by the ebb and flow of lives that respond only to such simple, rhythmic elements. But now the tone and tempo of the days switch. Instead of harmony, jangle.

Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement of the whole. Don't have more than one movement in a figure; you can't patch parts together. Simple lines; then simple values. Establish the fact of the whole. Is it square, oblong, cube, or what is it?

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.